"Some top INTL bball officials at USA practice validated on @PeteThamelNYT Kanter probe: "We've all known that kid's already a pro," one said."

KentuckySportsRadio.com spoke to new Duquesne assistant coach Rodney Crawford, who also coached Kanter at Mountain State. While Crawford was quoted in the Times piece about Kanter's adviser, Max Ergul, Crawford told KSR that some of his quotes were misrepresented or taken out of context.

In the Times story, Crawford allegedly said the following of Ergul: “I don’t feel comfortable talking much about him. I don’t want to be talking about it. He’s a real secretive guy. I don’t feel comfortable talking much about him.”

When contacted by KSR, Crawford's comments did not have the same negative connotation.

“Max is a great guy and Enes is a great kid,” Crawford told KSR. “Never in a million years would I say something negative about those guys. The thing I was saying was that I don't want to speak on Max or anyone else without talking to them first. There was nothing negative about it, I just was saying he was my friend and I didn't want to talk about him to the press. "He then took it and made it look negative.”